Chris’ Corner: Design the Job
Y’all use Figma for design work? I’d be willing to bet a lot of you do at your organization. I’m still wrapping my brain around the fact that Adobe has to write a billion dollar check to not acquire it. It’s no wonder why they wanted it — there is
Read moreEnhancing DevSecOps Workflows with Generative AI: A Comprehensive Guide
The advent of generative AI is set to revolutionize DevSecOps practices by addressing the manual aspects of the development lifecycle Continue reading Enhancing DevSecOps Workflows with Generative AI: A Comprehensive Guide on SitePoint.
Read moreWhat can JWST see?
The other day I ran across this photo of Saturn’s moon Titan taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). If JWST can see Titan with this kind of resolution, how well could it see Pluto or other planets? In this post I’ll do some back-of-the-envelope calculations, only considering the
Read moreFizz buzz walk
I ran across a graphic yesterday made by taking a sequence of steps of the same length, turning left on the nth step if n is prime, and otherwise continuing in the same direction. Here’s my recreation of the first 1000 steps: You can see that in general it makes
Read moreSupporting the world’s most-used database engine through 2050
Dr. Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite, shares how he taught himself to program, the challenges he faced in creating SQLite, and the importance of testing and maintaining the software for long-term support.
Read moreWhat language should beginning programmers choose?
Should a language be easy or comprehensive?
Read moreClosed-form solutions to nonlinear PDEs
The traditional approach to teaching differential equations is to present a collection of techniques for finding closed-form solutions to ordinary differential equations (ODEs). These techniques seem completely unrelated [1] and have arcane names such as integrating factors, exact equations, variation of parameters, etc. Students may reasonably come away from an
Read moreChoosing a Computer Language for a Project
Julia. Scala. Lua. TypeScript. Haskell. Go. Dart. Various computer languages new and old are sometimes proposed as better alternatives to mainstream languages. But compared to mainstream choices like Python, C, C++ and Java (cf. Tiobe Index)—are they worth using? Certainly it depends a lot on the planned use: is it
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